Ida Busbridge
Ida Busbridge worked on integral equations and radiative transfer. She was the first woman appointed to an Oxford fellowship in mathematics. She taught at the University of Oxford for 35 years.
Ida Busbridge worked on integral equations and radiative transfer. She was the first woman appointed to an Oxford fellowship in mathematics. She taught at the University of Oxford for 35 years.
Isabel Maddison was an English mathematician best known for her work on differential equations.
Chrystal Macmillan was the first female science graduate at Edinburgh University and the first female honours graduate in Mathematics. She became active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and went on to become a lawyer.
Joan Clarke was one of the English mathematicians recruited to work on wartime German codes with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park.
Joan Birman is an American mathematician who worked in in braid theory and knot theory.
Julia B Robinson worked on computability, decision problems and non-standard models of arithmetic.
Karen Smith is an American mathematician who works on commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her development of tight closure methods in commutative algebra and especially for her application of these methods in algebraic geometry.
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator, and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Evelyn Boyd Granville was only the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American University. She worked in computing.